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thread pool

A shared set of ready-made threads that tasks borrow and give back.

The .NET thread pool is a runtime-managed set of worker threads that runs queued work items such as Task.Run delegates and async continuations.

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Examples

  • await Task.Run(() => ResizeAll(photos)); runs the resizing on a thread borrowed from the pool.

See also

thread Task
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